SBIR Phase II: Grid Computing for Energy Exploration and Development

该小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目将开发一个启用网格的环境，在该环境中，地理上分散的、具有不同本地资源的用户可以快速访问、可视化和解释大型多维地震数据集。这项拟议的工作将把第一阶段的原型转化为可投入生产的商业质量软件，并在三维地震数据上进行演示。第二阶段项目的关键技术创新是(1)多分辨率数据可视化工具，(2)数据分段工具，(3)支持网格上的协同可视化和数据分析的多渠道协作工具。拟议的技术将允许多个用户共享多维网格分散的数据集并与其交互，同时查看具有与其本地显示和网络能力相称的分辨率和带宽的独立多个渲染。拟议的技术将通过实现几个网格服务和虚拟文件系统来实现，这些服务和虚拟文件系统使网格部署的数据集对用户来说似乎是本地的。此实现包括大部分技术任务，并利用中间件。第二阶段项目的直接成果将是互联网地震处理生产软件(INSP)版本，具有远程可视化、数据分级和网格上地震图像协作分析的专门功能。第二阶段项目的最终目标是一个商业网格软件产品，按需提供科学数据、服务、计算能力和可视化，不仅向石油和天然气行业，而且向更广泛的应用领域，如地理信息系统、教育、医学成像和战场管理。该产品将推动所能做的事情的极限，并全面促进网格的出现使新的商业范式成为可能，使企业能够专注于其核心能力并依赖其他实体提供网格支持的上下文技术，而不会阻碍他们的主要目标。第二阶段的结果将是网格的商业实施和利用，到目前为止，该工具包主要用于学术和研究应用。这项技术将首先在一个具有重要战略意义的经济部门商业化，即用于新能源的勘探。针对美国的能源需求，这种高端信息技术在具有经济和国家重要性的领域的独特应用，最终将在极其复杂的地质条件下开辟新的勘探场所，导致新的发现，并减少美国对进口石油的依赖。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a grid-enabled environment where large multidimensional seismic data sets can be rapidly accessed, visualized, and interpreted by geographically dispersed users with heterogeneous local resources. The proposed work will transform the Phase I prototype into production-ready commercial quality software, and demonstrate it on 3-D seismic data. The key technical innovations of the Phase II project are (1) a multi-resolution data visualizer, (2) a data-staging tool, and (3) a multi-channel collaboration tool to support collaborative visualization and data analysis on the grid. The proposed technology will allow multiple users to share and interact with multidimensional grid-dispersed data sets, while viewing independent multiple renderings with resolutions and bandwidths commensurate to their local display and network capabilities. The proposed technology will be enabled by implementing several grid services, and a virtual file system, that make grid deployed data sets appear local to the user. This implementation comprises the bulk of the technical tasks, and leverages the middleware. The immediate outcome of the Phase II project will be a version of Internet Seismic Processing production software (INSP) with specialized features for remote visualization, data staging, and collaborative analysis of seismic images on the grid.The ultimate objective of the Phase II project is a commercial grid-enabled software product providing scientific data, services, computing power, and visualization on demand, not only to the oil and gas industry but to a much wider range of application areas, such as geographic information systems, education, medical imaging, and battlefield management. The product will push the limits of what can be done, and fully contribute to a new business paradigm, made possible by the advent of the grid, allowing businesses to concentrate on their core competencies and rely on other entities for grid-enabled context technologies, without deterring from their primary objectives. The outcome of Phase II will be a commercial implementation and utilization of the grid, and the toolkit, which up until now, has been used mostly in academic and research applications. This technology will first be commercialized in a strategically important economic sector; namely, for the exploration of new energy resources. Specific to U.S. energy needs, this unique application of high end information technology to an area of economic and national importance will ultimately open up new exploration venues in extremely complicated geological conditions, leading to new discoveries, and decreasing US dependence on imported oil.